To the letter, cut & pasting, and all. I then attempted to install a charting gem called “gruff” (but really, I get these results no matter what gem I attempt to install):

Following is a cut and paste. Any thoughts on what could be wrong?

[taffy]$ gem install gruff
Attempting local installation of 'gruff’
Local gem file not found: gruff*.gem
Attempting remote installation of ‘gruff’
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:194:in report_activate_error': Could not find RubyGem sources (> 0.0.0) (Gem::LoadError) from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:136:inactivate’
from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:37:in require_gem_with_options' from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:31:inrequire_gem’
from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/remote_installer.rb:403:in sources' from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/remote_installer.rb:413:insource_index_hash’
from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/remote_installer.rb:377:in install' from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem_commands.rb:179:inexecute’
from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem_commands.rb:137:in each' from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem_commands.rb:137:inexecute’
from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/command.rb:49:in invoke' from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/cmd_manager.rb:92:inprocess_args’
from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/cmd_manager.rb:65:in run' from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem_runner.rb:9:inrun’
from /usr/bin/gem:17

Actually, yeah- I just recently figured it out. They don’t list it on the dreamhost wiki, but I got mine working by following the advice on another site, which essentially the same, but involves adding a file to your home dir named